If you plan to run a consistency check, by default it shows as 480 hours.

We need to make sure it does not run in production hours because it consumes a high CPU and disk resources.

Now review the summary and create the group

Once you see the task creation has successfully done then click close.

Now on the main screen you will see replica creation is running. Once it completes you will see ok. This is means you backup job has created and your Data Protection Manager is ready to backup your Exchange servers Every day.

Then Select the Date à search the user and right click à Select Recover

Now at confirmation page. Review the Recovery point & source is correct then Click Next

DPM always restore’s full database so it does not matter if you select one user or database.

5. Select “Recover mailbox to an Exchange server database” then click next

6. In Exchange Server Browse and select recovery server and in Database Name Type the RDB (recovery database name) then click next.

7. Click next.

8. Source should be the Database which was backed up and Destination should be Recovery Database. Verify Source and Destination then click Recover. Then Close the wizard and wait for restore to complete.

9. Point to be noted here is the time of the restore which varies for every database because of the different database size and network speed.

10. Now keep a watch on the DPM monitoring activity of this restore. Once restore completes you can do the recovery operations as per the requirements.